To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.
The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.
The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.
Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.
Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.
Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.